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and there really is a concern i know among some diplomats here in the united states that china, the view of china around the world is growing more positive by the year as they make investments in south america in, africa, in some places where it s some have criticized the united states for not being as engaged. in places where they are more engaged, there are some signs of improvement but other down sides, as well. over the last few years, the image of them has gone down and has been stuck the last year. on balance, people are neutral about china. they have a way to go to really improve their image. the human rights issue is an important one. i was struck on the bottom five, some of them were not surprising, iran, pakistan, north korea, there s just a very polarized view of it. but israel s knob view, 50% knob rating, only 19% rating, does this go with the religious back
and forth, the fact that there are more muslims in the world? it s quite widespread throughout the world. israel has been negatively viewed for some years, seen as a destabilizing force, not fully coop rative in trying to bring about peace. this is a real concern in general, the world looks for people, looks for countries that are more cooperative. that are ready to play well with others. and any country that is perceived like iran pursuing military power, something like that, does get a knob view. and there are still concerns about the u.s. in terms of the u.s. military force. the u.s. is still seen as using military power to pursue its interests and people don t completely like that. but the u.s. has moved in a more cooperative direction and that is what people like and that s why you re seeing this upward movement. stephen kull, thanks for joining us. go to world public opinion.org for all the details of the top and bottom performing countries.